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1 Warning! Violence, War, Magic & the Supernatural The fictional worlds of Rifts® are violent, deadly and filled with aliens, war and supernatural mon- sters. Other-dimensional beings often referred to as “demons,” torment, stalk and prey on humans. Alien life forms, monsters, vampires, ghosts, ancient gods and demigods, as well as magic, insanity, psychic powers and combat are all elements in this book. All of it is fiction. Some parents may find the violence, magic and supernatural elements of the game inappropriate for young readers/players. We suggest parental discretion. Please note that none of us at Palladium Books® condone or encourage the occult, the practice of magic, the use of drugs, or violence. An epic sourcebook for the Rifts ® series. Compatible with the entire Palladium Books ® Megaverse ® Sample file

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Warning!Violence, War, Magic & the Supernatural

The fictional worlds of Rifts® are violent, deadly and filled with aliens, war and supernatural mon-sters. Other-dimensional beings often referred to as “demons,” torment, stalk and prey on humans. Alien life forms, monsters, vampires, ghosts, ancient gods and demigods, as well as magic, insanity, psychic powers and combat are all elements in this book. All of it is fiction.

Some parents may find the violence, magic and supernatural elements of the game inappropriate for young readers/players. We suggest parental discretion.

Please note that none of us at Palladium Books® condone or encourage the occult, the practice of magic, the use of drugs, or violence.

An epic sourcebook for the Rifts® series.Compatible with the entire Palladium Books® Megaverse®

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First Printing – April 2012

No part of this publication may be scanned, OCRed, reproduced or distributed in any way for electronic publication on the web/internet or any other medium.

Copyright 2012 Palladium Books Inc. & Kevin Siembieda

All rights reserved, worldwide, under the Universal Copyright Convention. No part of this book may be reproduced in part or whole, in any form or by any means, without permission from the publisher, except for brief quotes for use in reviews. All incidents, situations, institutions, governments and people are fictional and any similarity, without satiric intent, of characters or persons living or dead, is strictly coincidental.

Rifts®, The Rifter®, Megaverse®, The Mechanoids®, The Mechanoid Invasion®, Phase World®, Splicers®, Coalition Wars®, After the Bomb®, RECON®, Nightbane®, The Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game® and Palladium Books® are registered trademarks owned and licensed by Palladium Books Inc. and Kevin Siembieda.

Anti-Monster, Archie-Bot, Archie Three, Arzno, Bio-Armor, Biomancy, Biomancer, Bio-Constructs, Biomancer Gene-Mage, Bio-Wizard, Blind Warrior Women, Birdmen of Easter Island, ‘Bot, ‘Borg, ‘Burb, Brodkil, Chaos Earth, Captain Nemo II, Chi-Town, City Rat, Coalition States, CS, Coalition State of El Dorado, Colorado Baronies, Combat Cyborg, Coming of the Rifts, Crazy, Cyber-Doc, Cyber-Knight, Deluded Vampire, Doc Reid, Dog Boy, Dog Pack, Dinosaur Swamp, Dyna-Bot, E-Clip, Emperor Prosek, Erin Tarn, Federation of Magic, Flooper, Free Quebec, Gargoyle Empire, Ghost Dragon, Glitter Boy, Great Cataclysm, Headhunter, Horune Pirates, Hydro-Psionics, Juicer, Jungle Elves, Junk Crab, Lazlo, Lemurian, Ley Line Walker, Lord Splynncryth, Madhaven, Magic Zone, Master Vam-pire, Meran, Metztla, Milu, Mind Melter, Naruni, Naruni Enterprises, Naut’Yll, NGR, New German Republic, New Navy, Northern Gun, Oceanic Guardsmen, Octodragon, Panther Shark, Psi-Stalker, Psyscape, Psykes, Reid’s Rangers, Rifts Earth, Sea Saber, Sea Sentinel, Sea Whip, Seal Serpent, Serpent Seahorse, Serpent Hunter, Secondary Vampire, Shadow Serpent, Shark Panther, Shemarrian, Shifter, Simvan, Skelebot, Splynn Dimensional Market, Splugorth, Minions of Splugorth, Splugorth Slavers, Stone Magic, Stone Masters, Tattooed Man, Techno-Wizard, Tolkeen, Triax, True Atlantean, Undead Slayer, Vampire Kingdoms, Rifts® Game Master Guide, Rifts® Book of Magic, Rifts® Atlantis, Rifts® Underseas, The Warm Dark of Cold Death, Wild Vampires, Wilk’s, Xiticix, Mega-Damage, M.D.C., S.D.C., I.S.P., P.P.E., and other names, titles, initials, characters, character likenesses, and slogans are trademarks owned and licensed by Kevin Siembieda and Palladium Books Inc.

Palladium Online: www.palladiumbooks.com – also visit us at facebook.com/PalladiumBooks

Rifts® World Book 32: Lemuria™ is published by Palladium Books Inc., 39074 Webb Court, Westland, MI 48185-7606. Printed in the USA.

Dedication from GregTo Jenn, my best friend, my wife, who despite her significant disdain for my hobby, did the best she could to support my work and of-

fered her support and encouragement in any way!To my three boys Caleb, Joshua and Noah who love to eat junk food and play with my coloured dice at our gaming nights.To Harry, my hero and above all else my father! His words of encouragement, support and understanding even transcend the bonds of

father and son.To my gaming buddies who not only game with me on a regular basis, but were equally excited and enthusiastic about play testing and

gaming with the Rifts® Lemuria material for the first time! Dennie Lutes (also my proofreader and concept check guy), Eric Lanctot (also my content check guy), Martin Scaiano, Chris Salter and Ryan McConanchie.

And last, but not least to Kevin, for creating a gaming system that has entertained me for nearly two decades, fighting with every last breath to keep Palladium Books alive and for offering a bunch of freelancers (myself included) the opportunity to make our own contribu-tion to his work!

– Greg Diaczyk

Special DedicationTo G.A.M.E., Visioncon and Joe W. Ryan for their dedication to the role-playing game hobby and passion for Palladium Books and all

things gaming. May they all prosper and game on.– Kevin Siembieda

The cover, by John Zeleznik, depicts a Lemurian floating city nestled on the floor of an ocean or sea. A surface dwelling visitor to Le-muria rides a Mega-Ray, while a couple of Lemurian allies known as Merans scout the perimeter.

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Palladium Books® Presents:

Rifts® World Book 32:

LemuriaConceived by: Greg Diaczyk

Written by: Greg Diaczyk and Kevin Siembieda

Additional Writing & Ideas: Matthew Clements

Editors: Alex Marciniszyn Wayne Smith Matthew Clements Kevin Siembieda

Proofreader: Julius Rosenstein

Cover Painting: John Zeleznik

Interior Artists: Amy L. Ashbaugh Nicholas Bradshaw Kent Burles Allen Manning Brian Manning Michael Mumah Charles “Chuck” Walton II

Additional Creatures & Armor Concepts: Charles Walton II

Maps: Greg Diaczyk

Art Direction: Kevin SiembiedaTypography and Layout: Wayne Smith

Based on the RPG rules, text, characters, settings,concepts and Megaverse® created by Kevin Siembieda.

Special Thanks to Greg Diaczyk for his inventiveness and breathing life into a project long shelved; to John Zeleznik for an elegant and evocative cover; to Chuck Walton for his inspiring Bio-Armor and monster designs; to Kent, Mike, Nick, Brian, Allen and Amy for kicking it up a notch, and to the intrepid Palladium crew, Alex, Wayne, Kathy, Julius and Matthew, each one a hero and a friend. And to the 359 Megaverse Insiders whose sup-port helped make this book possible.

– Kevin Siembieda, 2012

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Megaverse® InsidersInside Help

Nathaniel Baker, Joshua Bambrick, Anna Barrett, Ben Bingham, Vernon Atsumasa Brown, Alex Bunten, Phillip A Compher, Kimihiro Hamaura, Paul Herbert, Greg Hermann, A. Leonard Hogan, James Terrill Holt, Damian Kavanaugh, Christopher Kavanaugh, Rick Kel-ley, Lee Kleint, Joshua Krebs, Matt Krebs, Jennifer R. Levenson, So-phia A. Levenson, Jeffery S. Levenson, Robert M. Levenson, Frank Loose, Kat MacDougall, Jason Martin, Jeremy McKenna, Jonah Lu-cas Paslawski, Lily Fae Paslawski, Johathan Powell-Mark, Morgan Smith, Gregory Spivey, Lois l Terrill, James Terrill, Nicole Terrill, Laura Terrill, Tristan Terrill, Zander Terrill, Alexis Terrill, Ethan l Terrill, Alan Valentine, Jake Walkenhorst, Christopher Wilmer

In MemoriamFred J Allman, Jim “Angus” Blakley, Anne “Dementer” Brett,

Lee “Navigator” Carroll, Rebecca Ann Cloer, Toumani Dembele, Gregory Fordham, Chris Joas, Richard Newman, Azariah Perez, Peter Porcaro Sr, Orville Rose, Paul Selice, Richard C Steele, Pearl Steele, Melvin Terrill, James Howard Thomas, Boyd Tracy, Tom Whittemore

A Real Character TributeAlejandro DeLaCruz, Amaranth Nox, Angelle Davis, Bambi

“The Borg” Carruthers, Daimyo Shi, Daventhalas de Mont Hault, ‘DeskTopTrooper’ SeyfertSluw, Dollop the Dragon, Felix, Gabriel Corhst, Garner Varzerius Harmon, Jerick Rollie, Karl Logen, Kenjo Dekai, Kyan Redblade, Magnus, Max Eumaeus, Me is Michael, Orion Atlason, Paul Crocker, Pvt. 54SH4 “Sasha”, Ray Blackheart, Roderick “Flashpoint” Green, Sakura Hayase, Sir Caldwell, Tem-pest Manslaughter, The Mysterious Tattooed One King Zarchron, Torq, Trip Stan Vic, Victor & the Dragon, Wemic Pandemic

Cyber-InsidersSabrina Akins, Thomas Andary, Carl Arterbury, Mark Assar,

Nathaniel Baker, Ben Bonds, Jeff Bunde, Brent Burnett, Kevin Carpenter, Anthony Casab, Oswin Chang, David Chittim, Phillip A Compher, Mike Creelman, Michael Dawson, James Diefender-fer, Jason Domke, Michael Estrada, Jeffrey Farrar, Allan Fierro, Brandon Fong, Jon Foster, Scott Gibbons, Travis Guerrero, Harley Hacker, Alexander Heck, Paul Herbert, John Horton, Clifford Hoyt, Neil Johnson, Demetrius Karanikolas, Nolen Keith, David Lang, Scott Leapold, Joseph MacIsaac, Sara McLaughlan, David Moffatt, Rog Myrant, Aaron Nelson, Matthew Newton, Leigh O’Neil, Victor Peterson, James Plowman, Matt Powell, Jeffrey Reade, Tim Robert-son, Michael Rose, Scott Rubin, Stephen Schneider, Troy Scough-ton, Christopher Shields, Michael Smith, Adam Soliday, Christo-pher Spencer, Damien Titchener, Chad Trantham, H. E. Werkheiser, Jeffrey White, Jason Williamson, Jeff Woodman, Frank Wrege

Palladium InsidersDylon Amerasinghe, Michael Barakofsky, Rex Barkdoll, Bay-

ton Befoe Jr, Richard Bray, Brent Burnett, Eric Campion, David Chittim, Allen R Cogar, Cory Crandall, Steven Daniel, Stuart J Davis, Matthew “Nekira” Daye, Carl Douglas, Brett Easterbrook, Melissa Eaton, Bryan Ellis, Todd Ferrullo, Trevor Fitch, Steve E Gibson, Todd Gilbert, Carl L Gilchist, Carl Gleba, Denny “Keg-

leneq” Ham, Kairam Hamdan, Brian Harrison, Brenda L Heck, Gregory Hermann, James Hicks Jr, Seth Johnson, John “Sinder” King, John Kretzer, James LaFlamme, Chadd Leath, James Lukow, David Manz, Wayne Maynard, Andy McElravy, Kevin McGold-rick, Casey Michels, Patrick E T Miller, Thomas Molen, Trevor Morehead, Rod Myrant, Warren Nelson, Charles Pickering, Allan “ZeroArmour” Randall, Ryan Rawlings, Bradley Reeser, Daniel Ritchie, Bill Schaffer, Ken Stewart, Josh Stoddard, Erin “Chakat Cait” Sullivan, Austin Suzuki, Seraphine Swalve, Thor Swenson, Daniel “Ogre” Thomas, Nick Warren, Steven Whittredge

Emerald InsidersKristopher Akers, Brandon K Aten, Graham Bailey, William J

Bailey, Scott A Banzhaf, Jon Bruning, Jeff Costello, Jeremy Da-vis, John J Dorch, Brett Easterbrook, Gregory Hermann, Michael Holland, Dennis Hughes, Jeremy Johnston, Christopher Kavana-ugh, David Klett, Jason Lamb, Matthew Lane, Heath Langemann, Chad Lasecki, Jonathan “Iscerus” Lum, Scott Norman 783, Evan Odensky, Boone Oshel, Kris Perlock-Campeau, Steve Robbins, Matthew Robertson, John Santa Barbara, Edward J Sauerland, Raymond D Spencer, Dave Waller, Paul Wehde, H E “Hew” Werkheiser, Stanley Woo, Kelly Zolnoski

Emerald-Plus InsidersPeter Adams, Chris Beacock, Joshua Curry, Erich Eisenmenger,

Michael Henre, Perry G Jones, Stephen B Keith, Shawn Kennedy, John J King, Magnar Laska, Jeff A Lee, Russell S Lenhares, Timo-thy Letts, Jorel J Levenson, Ryan Mahoney, Kris Main, Chris Mill-er, Cupcake Miser, Richard J Perez, James Eric Ritchie, Jeffrey Schuler, Sgt Scott Simpson, Larry Todd Stanley, Richard Steele, Michael Swain, Christopher M M Thomas, Charles Viaud, Chris-tian Weidelman, Steven “Chief Executive GM” Yeung

Top InsidersJamey Adams, Eric Auger, Chris Axtell, Ryan Bacon, Brent

Casavant, Anthony Castorino, Jonathon E Conroy, Robb F Dunn, Jessica Frost, Torrey Jones, John Kallil, Andrew Kelsoe, Chris Kluge, Andrew Kohler, Brandon Landry, Derrick “Omote” Land-wehr, Rich and Becky Lints, Christina Liu, Kai Martin, Charles McComb, Jason Mendoza, Ramzie Othman, Donovan Pankratz, Ron Placentia, Ammon Redman, Albert Rosado, Michael Satran, Frederick R Seibel 5th, Geoffrey Setjo, Chris S Steinbrenner, Rob-ert Steiner, Tracy Sykes, Brian Terrill, Jason Volinsky, J. Patrick Walker, Robert J Walsh, Thomas Walters, Jason Webster, Chris-topher Wilmer, Athena and Anthony Young

Ultimate InsidersChristopher Arnwine, B.D.J.P (Alan Beck) Gaming, Matthias

Belfast, Kerry Cook, Joshua Hill, Shawn Johnson, Jesse Mihalik-Howard, Jeff Monahan, Peter Porcaro Jr, Leonard Smith, David Snell, Todd Spencley, Shephard A Williams

BenefactorsBenjamin Barton, Derek Boudreaux, Lucas Buck, Charles Buck-

lew, David Dunham, Todd Flippo, Federico Franceschi, Ryan Fuerst, Travis Guerrero, Shawn Johnson, John Kelley, Scott Kendrick, John Klinkel, Arnaldo Lebebre, Michael Lord, Becky Northaven, Ronald Robinson, Douglas Rood, Anthony Santaferra, Jonathan Scolam-iero, Leonard Smith, Ed Surrett, Kevin Valonis, Brad Whitcomb

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Contents – Rifts® LemuriaA Note from the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8The Lemurians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

True Atlanteans and Lemurians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Global disaster came without warning . . . . . . . . . . . . 9The Lord of the Deep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

The Lemurian People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13The Lemurian Navy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Lemurian Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Lemurian Caste System & Government . . . . . . . . . . . 15The Mauian Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Secret quest for the Blade Eternal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Maui-Tikitiki, Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Lemurian Floating Cities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21The City of Mu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21Key City Design Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Outer Ring of Ziggurats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23Inner Ring of Ziggurats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Master Ziggurat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Other Locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25City Defenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Garden Valley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26Finding Lemuria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Easter Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28Moai, Stone Guardians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29Lemurian Agriculture & Food . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32Lemurian Food Vats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33Hunting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33Biomancer Gardens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34Carnivorous Blue Fruit Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34Crystal Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35Dark Seed Kelp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37Mana Limu Magic Algae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37Missile Anemones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38Sun Seaweed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38Sungrass Seaweed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Tangleweed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Tree of Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Wizard Wrap Kelp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40Aquatic Races . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41Ichthylean R.C.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41Junk Crab R.C.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Creating an Armored Techno-Shell . . . . . . . . . . . . 45Lemurian R.C.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Special R.C.C. Abilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48Lemurian Stats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Lemurian Ring-Tailed Lemur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50Lemurian Aquatic Lemur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51Meran R.C.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52New & Notable Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54Aquatic Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Advanced Fishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55Horsemanship: Aquatic Animals . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55Horsemanship: Sea Monsters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55Horsemanship: Serpent Hunter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55Language: Cetacean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Language: Ichthylean/Milu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55Language: Lemurian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55Language: Oceanic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55Lore: Sea Creatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55Marine Biology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55Ocean Geographic Surveying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56Sea Holistic Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56Swimming & Fatigue Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56Track & Hunt Sea Animals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56Undersea Farming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56Underwater Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56Undersea Salvage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56Undersea & Sea Survival . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Physical Skill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56Hand to Hand: Demon Combat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Piloting Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58Advanced Deep Sea Diving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58Pilot Related: Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58Submersibles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58Symbiotic Conduit Vehicle Combat . . . . . . . . . . . . 58Warships & Patrol Boats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58Water Scooters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58Water Skiing and Surfing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Weapon Proficiencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58W.P. Net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58W.P. Harpoon & Spear Gun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59W.P. Torpedo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59W.P. Trident . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Underwater Combat (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59Lemurian O.C.C.s of Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60Biomancer Gene-Mage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60Three Schools of Biomancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61Plant P.P.E. and Biomancer Gene-Mages . . . . . . . . . . . 62O.C.C. Abilities and Bonuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63Biomancer Gene-Mage (Stats) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65Lemurian Men-At-Arms O.C.C.s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66Birdman Warrior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66Oceanic Guardsman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68Sea Sentinel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Born to Soar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71Machine Awareness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Serpent Hunter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73Empathy with Serpents & Monsters . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Lemurian Adventurer O.C.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77Lemurian Scout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77Lemurian Psychic O.C.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80Spouter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80New Water-Based Psionics (Hydro-Psionics) . . . . . . . 82

Hold Breath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82Hydro-Ice Skate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83Hydroplane Skating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83Hydro-Propulsion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83Psychic Purification: Liquid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83Resist Dehydration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83Sense Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

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Water Breakout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83Water Levitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84Water Telekinesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84Water Telekinesis Attack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84Water Telekinesis Bolt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84Water Telekinesis Punch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84Water Telekinesis Rain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84Water Walk Telekinesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Hydro-Super-Psionics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85Hydro-Magnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85Hydration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85Water Breathing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85Water Pressure Endurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85Water Shield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85Wave Attack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Experience Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86Lemurian Biomancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86Alphabetical listing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Level One . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87Level Two . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89Level Three . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92Level Four . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95Level Five . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97Level Six . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99Level Seven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101Level Eight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102Level Nine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104Level Ten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105Level Eleven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105Level Twelve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Invocations available to Biomancers . . . . . . . . . . . . 106New Ocean Magic Spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108Biomancy Bio-Armor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110Features Common to All Bio-Armor . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Avian Bio-Armor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111Barnacle Bio-Armor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113Chitin Bio-Armor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114Coral Bio-Armor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115Crustacean Bio-Armor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119Dolphin Bio-Armor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120Kelp Bio-Armor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121Leviathan Bio-Armor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123Shark Bio-Armor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126Wood Bio-Armor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128Wave Strider Body Armor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Lemurian Bio-Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131Features Common to Melee Bio-Weapons . . . . . . . . . 131

Barracuda Bio-Blades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131Bone & Shell Bio-Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131Coral Bio-Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132Shark Tooth “Serpent Slayer” Bio-Weapons . . . . . . 132Wood “Undead Slayer” Bio-Weapons . . . . . . . . . . 132Serpent Bio-Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Other Bio-Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133Crab Claw Gauntlet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133Serpent Entangler Net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Tentacle Sword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134Lemurian Ranged Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Bio-Energy Bow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134Clamshell Pistol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134Ink Gun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135Lava Projector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135Nematocyst Paralyzer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135Sea Urchin Spike Launcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135Sonic Blast Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136Stonecaster Pistol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136Stonecaster Rifle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136Waterjet Gun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Bio-Construct Symbiotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136Living Saddles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136Morphic Riding Bio-Barding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137Bio-Skins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137Breathers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138Fin Pack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138Octo-Arm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139Sea Doctor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139Sea Eye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140Squid Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141Squid Pack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142Talisman Shell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Lemurian Transportation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144Bubble Pack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144Serpent Saddle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Lemurian Symbiotic Combat Vehicles . . . . . . . . . . 145Features Common to Lemurian Symbiotic Vehicles . . . . 145

Sea Dart Interceptor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145Cloud Shell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147Cloud Wind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148Wave Shadow Submarine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150Scuttler Submersible Tank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152Wind Seer (Probe) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Enemies of Lemuria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154Milu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Living Milu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155Mahiki Milu, Vampires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Path Walkers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157Undead Zombie Servant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Davey Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158Davey Jones’s Locker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159City of Bones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159Davey Jones, NPC Villain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Other Enemies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162Lord of the Deep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163Splugorth of Atlantis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Lemurian Relations with Other Peoples . . . . . . . . . . 165New Navy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166Tritonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Exotic Creatures of the Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167Blue Otter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167Death Hunter Fish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168Giant Sea Slug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

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